Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:20:05 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! Message-ID: <199603150820.AAA19234@idiom.com>
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Don't hold back for lack of documenation. It's coming.
The perl newsgroups are getting very perl4-hostile. I agree with
them -- perl5 is a far better system and perl4 should die die die.
I've been using perl5 as the default perl on my FreeBSD systems
since long before perl5 had it's first official release. I've
never looked back. Perl4 is a crippled langauge by comparison.
There are relatively few incompatabilities.
I'm not sure if there are any pre-printed perl5 books available yet.
>From the table (below) it seems that there might be.
-Dave
(See http://perl.com/perl/info/documentation.html)
Author Title Publisher Media Price
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Perl Programmers
Larry Wall, Tom Reference Guide
Christiansen, et (~500 pages of none Internet FREE
al. postscript or html
covering the latest
release of Perl)
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Christian Neuss The Webmaster's
& Johan Vromans Handbook: Perl Power Int'l Thomson CD $30
for Your Web Server
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William E.
Weinman CGI Scripting New Riders CD $45
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Perl Programming
Garbus et al. Unleashed Sams.net CD
(Available Mar 1996)
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Steven E.
Brenner & Edwin Introduction to CGI & MIS:Press/M&T
Aoki Perl: Web Scripts Books
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Perl 5 Programming
Ed Tittel et al. Secrets IDG Books CD
(Available Mar 1996)
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Special Edition Using
Mitzelfelt Perl Que
(Available Jan 1996)
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Shishir CGI Programming on the
Gundavaram World Wide Web O'Reilly $30
(Available March 1996)
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The Official 60 Minute
Rob Farrel Guide to CGI IDG Books $20
Programming with Perl
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Ed Tittel et al. Web Programming Secrets IDG Books CD $40
(Available Jan 1996)
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Developing CGI
John Deep Applicationswith Perl Wiley $30
(Available Dec 1995)
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Jon Orwant Perl 5 Interactive Waite $30
(Available Feb 1996)
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Reggie David Perl 5 How-To Waite CD $40
(Available Spring 1996)
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Teach Yourself CGI
Eric Herrmann Programming with Perl Sams.net $30
in a Week
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Walnut Creek Perl
(Collected resources,
Anonymous archives, tutorial, Walnut Creek CD $40
examples, CDROM source CDROM
code, etc.)
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Software Engineering
with Perl
Carl Dichter & (This is an advanced
Mark Pease text for software Prentice Hall Floppy $30
professionals; it is
not a tutorial.)
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Ellie Quigley Perl by Example Prentice Hall $27
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John December &
Mark Ginsburg HTML & CGI Unleashed Sams.net CD $50
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David Till Teach Yourself Perl in Sams $30
21 Days
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Larry Wall &
Randal L. Programming Perl O'Reilly $30
Schwartz
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Randal L.
Schwartz Learning Perl O'Reilly $25
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Foundations of WWW
Ed Tittel et al. Programming with HTML IDG Books CD $40
and CGI
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Teaching a New Dog Old
Eric Lease Tricks
Morgan (Mac-based WWW Starter none Internet FREE
Kit with Server)
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Website: Everything You
Susan Peck & Needto Know...
Linda Mui (This is a complete O'Reilly CD $500
Website kit for Windows
NT 3.5)
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How to Set Up and
Lincoln D. Stein Maintain a World Wide Addison-Wesley $29
Web Site
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Jonathan Magid
et al. The Web Server Book Ventana CD $50
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net.Genesis &
Devra Hall Build a Web Site Prima $35
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David Chandler Running a Perfect Web Que CD $40
Site
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Jon Weiderspan & Planning & Managing a
Chuck Shotton Web Site on the Addison-Wesley CD $40
Macintosh
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